Compilation Album Release / Performance / Installation

Performance and video installation “SYMPATHETIC RELEASE” by Barnett Cohen & Jules Gimbrone with select performances by FAULT LINES contributors:

Morgan Gerstmar with Madeline Falcone, Emily Call & Betsy Rettig
Molly Allis / Jenica Anderson / Misra Iltus / Hanna Campbell
David Paha
Jules Gimbrone
Aidan Reynolds
Max Wanderman
Odeya Nini
Marcus Rubio with Ben Levinson, Andrew Young, Suzanne Kite, Aidan Reynolds, Evan Spacht, Max Wandermann, Christoffer Schunk, & Josh Joshua Carro
Todd Lerew
Alex Black
Sarah Faith Gottesdiener / Oscar Santos
Bridget Batch
Jen Hutton

“FAULT LINES started as a desire to cultivate a space where sound becomes a physical presence. By locating artists inside a geological feature of the earth, FAULT LINES encouraged composers to create time-based work that resembles the extreme temporal scales of tectonic plates. Whether these plates appear deeply still or silent, at any moment they can send waves of massive movement and disruption. This buildup of potential energy or stress within a fault line is stored until the strain is released, causing rupture. This latent energy is analogous to the medium of recorded sound, specifically the vinyl LP that holds kinetic energy in its rotation. Although each composer worked independently from Jen Hutton’s text, the pieces are connected by their experimentation in timbre, a textural feature that helps to objectify sounds, and gives differentiation regardless of pitch or loudness. A focus on the physicality of sound textures, and the spaces that these sounds inhabit, appear to dictate the artists’ compositional choices. Often sound is considered an abstract, liminal, and/or transitory medium given meaning through its narrative thrust — where it takes the listener through a linear, time-based journey. FAULT LINES, however, is an attempt to give sound a physical body, a body where time bends, is held, expands, and is again made solid.” – Jules Gimbrone